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authorDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2010-01-16 09:14:11 +0100
committerDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2010-02-17 17:48:20 +0100
commit00ce99ff506a17882747a7d6874e3f5206a99043 (patch)
tree571f5b106f25f35f326d456123c4af85147c3bce /include
parent3d3de32fad19e37695e6649136e4cb17f9d46329 (diff)
pcmcia: simplify locking
replace pcmcia_socket->lock and pcmcia_dev_list_lock by using the per-socket "ops_mutex", as we do neither need different locks nor a spinlock here. Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/pcmcia/ss.h7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/pcmcia/ss.h b/include/pcmcia/ss.h
index e756069859b..cfaccc224b5 100644
--- a/include/pcmcia/ss.h
+++ b/include/pcmcia/ss.h
@@ -134,7 +134,6 @@ struct pccard_operations {
struct pcmcia_socket {
struct module *owner;
- spinlock_t lock;
socket_state_t socket;
u_int state;
u_int suspended_state; /* state before suspend */
@@ -201,10 +200,12 @@ struct pcmcia_socket {
struct task_struct *thread;
struct completion thread_done;
unsigned int thread_events;
- /* protects socket h/w state */
+
+ /* For the non-trivial interaction between these locks,
+ * see Documentation/pcmcia/locking.txt */
struct mutex skt_mutex;
- /* protects PCMCIA state */
struct mutex ops_mutex;
+
/* protects thread_events */
spinlock_t thread_lock;